Storied Deserts : Reimagining Global Arid Lands Paperback / softback
Edited by Celina Osuna, Aidan Tynan
Part of the Routledge Environmental Humanities series
Paperback / softback
Description
Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places.
This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world’s desert places and the very concept of ‘the desert’ itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach.
Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship.
Through their diverse range of perspectives, contributors show how arid lands have been and can be understood as sites of narrative production, places where signs and imaginaries are born from the materialities of space and entanglement.
In this way, the volume highlights how the storied matter of the Earth’s deserts informs lived realities, environmental histories, cinematic and literary imaginaries, political conflicts, and even intellectual categories such as ‘the human’ and ‘the elemental’. Ultimately, this book shows that reimagining desert places can help us to grapple with the epochal challenges of the Anthropocene.
It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/06/2024
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- ISBN:9781032501796
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032501796
